AI Power Surge: Social media chatter highlights American Electric Power's position in meeting rising electricity needs from data centers and AI operations, with analysts noting substantial contracted load growth ahead.
Congressional Interest: Recent disclosures of stock purchases by lawmakers have drawn attention, positioning the utility as a key player in infrastructure supporting technological expansion across multiple states.
Growth Outlook: Participants emphasize steady earnings projections and transmission assets as factors fueling positive views, though questions persist on balancing capital investments with regulatory factors.
Note: This discussion summary was generated from an AI condensation of post data.
American Electric Power Insider Trading Activity
American Electric Power insiders have traded $AEP stock on the open market 2 times in the past 6 months. Of those trades, 0 have been purchases and 2 have been sales.
Here’s a breakdown of recent trading of $AEP stock by insiders over the last 6 months:
- PHILLIP R. ULRICH (Executive Vice President) sold 4,106 shares for an estimated $542,320
- KELLY J FERNEAU (Executive Vice President) sold 1,351 shares for an estimated $177,602
To track insider transactions, check out Quiver Quantitative's insider trading dashboard. You can access data on insider stock transactions through the Quiver Quantitative API insider transaction endpoint.
American Electric Power Revenue
American Electric Power had revenues of $6B in Q1 2026.
You can track AEP financials on Quiver Quantitative's AEP stock page.
You can access data on AEP stock through the Quiver Quantitative API.
American Electric Power Congressional Stock Trading
Members of Congress have traded $AEP stock 3 times in the past 6 months. Of those trades, 2 have been purchases and 1 have been sales.
Here’s a breakdown of recent trading of $AEP stock by members of Congress over the last 6 months:
- REPRESENTATIVE DAVID TAYLOR has traded it 3 times. They made 2 purchases worth up to $30,000 on 06/05, 01/16 and 1 sale worth up to $15,000 on 02/26.
To track congressional stock trading, check out Quiver Quantitative's congressional trading dashboard. You can access data on congressional stock trades through the Quiver Quantitative API Congress trades endpoint.
American Electric Power Hedge Fund Activity
We have seen 939 institutional investors add shares of American Electric Power stock to their portfolio, and 803 decrease their positions in their most recent quarter.
Here are some of the largest recent moves:
- MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC added 2,769,391 shares (+200.4%) to their portfolio in Q1 2026, for an estimated $362,264,036
- FEDERATED HERMES, INC. removed 2,312,453 shares (-82.0%) from their portfolio in Q1 2026, for an estimated $302,491,976
- GQG PARTNERS LLC removed 2,006,111 shares (-10.6%) from their portfolio in Q4 2025, for an estimated $231,324,659
- BLACKROCK, INC. added 1,536,746 shares (+3.3%) to their portfolio in Q1 2026, for an estimated $201,021,744
- WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP removed 1,482,735 shares (-10.1%) from their portfolio in Q1 2026, for an estimated $193,956,565
- TD ASSET MANAGEMENT INC added 1,462,663 shares (+312.1%) to their portfolio in Q1 2026, for an estimated $191,330,947
- SOROBAN CAPITAL PARTNERS LP removed 1,434,464 shares (-55.9%) from their portfolio in Q1 2026, for an estimated $187,642,235
To track hedge funds' stock portfolios, check out Quiver Quantitative's institutional holdings dashboard. You can access data on hedge funds moves and 13F filings through the Quiver Quantitative API 13F endpoint.
American Electric Power Government Contracts
We have seen $6,500,055 of award payments to $AEP over the last year.
Here are some of the awards which we have have seen pay out the most over the last year:
- ELECTRICAL UTILITY SERVICE FOR MSHA, MINE ACADEMY, 1301 AIRPORT RD., BEAVER, WV 25813 FOR THE PERIOD 3/1/20...: $1,052,062
- ELECTRICAL SERVICES FOR FCI MCDOWELL FY 26 CONTRACT #47PA0422D0063: $675,257
- ELECTRICAL SERVICES FOR FCI MCDOWELL FY 25 PENDING FUNDS AVAILABILITY: $310,641
- ELECTRICAL SERVICE DOS 7-01-2025 TO 9-30-2025 FOR THE INMATE POPULATION AT THE FCI AND FPC: $265,549
- ELECTRICAL SERVICE FOR THE 1ST QTR FY26 FOR THE INMATE POPULATION AT THE FCI AND FPC BECKLEY WV: $255,377
To track government contracts to publicy traded companies, check out Quiver Quantitative's government contracts dashboard. You can access data on government contracts through the Quiver Quantitative API government contracts endpoint.
American Electric Power Price Targets
Multiple analysts have issued price targets for $AEP recently. We have seen 16 analysts offer price targets for $AEP in the last 6 months, with a median target of $141.5.
Here are some recent targets:
- Richard Sunderland from Truist Securities set a target price of $145.0 on 05/29/2026
- Shelby Tucker from TD Cowen set a target price of $148.0 on 05/15/2026
- Nicholas Campanella from Barclays set a target price of $136.0 on 05/07/2026
- Anthony Crowdell from Mizuho set a target price of $141.0 on 05/06/2026
- Shahriar Pourreza from Wells Fargo set a target price of $148.0 on 05/06/2026
- Andrew Weisel from Scotiabank set a target price of $140.0 on 05/06/2026
- Ryan Levine from Citigroup set a target price of $148.0 on 05/06/2026
This article is not financial advice. See Quiver Quantitative's disclaimers for more information. Note that there may be inaccuracies due to mistakes in ticker-mapping, and other anomalies.
